The original explanation was never a sustainable one . The president claimed that Comey's ousting had nothing to do with the FBI's investigation into alleged collusion between Russian operatives and associates of the Trump campaign. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while ...

The trio of Aldridge, Murray and Gasol combined for 33 of San Antonio's 60 rebounds, as the Spurs pummeled the Rockets on the glass by a 23-board margin. Out of all the playoff teams, the Rockets would most understand what it's like to face an opponent without their best player. "You have to prepare for this team a different way".

The Cavaliers are the only team since the Minneapolis Lakers in 1949 and 1950 to win their first seven playoff games in consecutive seasons. LeBron James said he wasn't anxious about what happened previous year. The Cavs lead 3-0 and no team has ever dug out of such a hole in the National Basketball Association playoffs. "We won back-to-back 50-plus games, that never happened in franchise history".

The SNP took 32.3% of first preference votes in the single transferable vote system, with the Tories on 25.3% and Labour on 20.2%. "The cliché is that it's a two-horse race, but it really is, and we will be leading Scotland's fightback against the SNP".

Mr Corbyn will hope the pivot to foreign policy distracts attention from a chaotic 24 hours in which the entire draft Labour manifesto was leaked and his auto ran over a BBC cameraman's foot in full view of journalists. Britain's main opposition leader has accused Prime Minister Theresa May of pandering to an "erratic" USA administration, as defense and security take center-stage in the United Kingdom election campaign.

Zakharova referenced another recent photo-op at the White House which has not raised questions from the USA media. "That's the problem with the Russians - they lie", the official added. "So: Russian state media had an exclusive on the Oval Office meeting from which American journalists had been barred", CNN commentator Frida Ghitis wrote .

McCabe - a 21-year Federal Bureau of Investigation official who assumed the position of acting Federal Bureau of Investigation director when Comey was sacked - was asked about Sanders' remark at a May 11 hearing of the Senate intelligence committee.

When asked to rank Mr. Trump and his predecessor on a scale of 1-10 with respect to their overall treatment of the media, respondents offered the current president a score of 7.2, with a score of 10 designating an administration that's "outright hostile".

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomed Lavrov in the Treaty Room, saying he looks forward to continuing a dialogue the two began in Moscow "on a very broad range of topics". In particular, Tillerson and Lavrov are expected to discuss the "de-escalation zones" inside Syria that Russia , Iran and Turkey agreed to create last week.

Macron, a centrist upstart, won Sunday's presidential election by a landslide, defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who had hoped to ride the wave of rising nationalism in Europe. In the village of Pieusse where Robert lives, Le Pen received 271 votes in Sunday's presidential runoff, five more than Macron's 266. In a meeting with members of his campaign team on February 22, Macron told them that he was about to get an endorsement from Francois Bayrou, a centrist former three-time ...

Mr Carney said: "Wages are still growing and we expect the pace of growth will accelerate as this year progresses and continue into 2018 and 2019". Ishaan Malhi, CEO and founder of online mortgage broker Trussle, said: "The Bank of England's continued reluctance to raise rates certainly won't be pleasing savers, but anyone looking to buy their first home or switch mortgage can breathe a sigh of relief".

On at least a half-dozen occasions, Blumenthal falsely referred to service in Vietnam, commenting on how veterans like himself were treated upon their return to the U.S. Kennedy falsely claiming the Soviet Union had a "missile gap" over the US arsenal, and a secret war in Laos. Trump, who was eligible to be drafted during the Vietnam War, received rive deferments, four while he was attending college and a fifth after a doctor diagnosed him with bone spurs in his heels.